Just released: a virtual museum with nearly every OS you can think of...

3 months ago by Sundray to c/retrocomputing

Today I am (finally) releasing the  Virtual OS Museum , which is the world's first multi-platform interactive virtual museum of operatin...

From Andrew, of the Andrew's OS Blog:

Today I am (finally) releasing the Virtual OS Museum, which is the world's first multi-platform interactive virtual museum of operating systems and standalone applications, implemented as a Linux VM.

Nearly all well-known OSes and platforms (and many obscure ones) are included in some form, spanning the entire history of stored-program computing from the 1948 Manchester Baby to the present day. This is the result of over 20 years of collecting emulators and VM images; over 1700 VM installations are included, across over 250 platforms, representing nearly 600 distinct OSes.

I have put a lot of effort into making this readily accessible; all OSes and emulators are pre-installed, and a cross-emulator graphical launcher with a snapshot feature to revert VM installations to a working state is included. Shortcuts to run the OS museum VM on Windows, macOS, and Linux are included (and it is possible to run it on pretty much anything that runs QEMU or VirtualBox).

wesker 6 points 3 months ago

The site design is an aggressive eye fuck, but I like the project.

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alastel 5 points 3 months ago

Here goes my next month...

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zonklezoop 2 points 3 months ago

Incredible work. Can't wait to dive in.

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